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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 9, 1992Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 1992, 8:19 PM CDT for Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 1992, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1992, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Ray County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1343 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 7.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 100119
TORMCI
MOC177-100145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
819 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...SOUTHERN RAY COUNTY
 
AT 814PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO ON THE
CLAY AND RAY COUNTY LINE JUST EAST OF MISSOURI CITY OR 20 MILES EAST OF
KANSAS CITY. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...RICHMOND
ORRICK. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE COVER NOW.
 
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	39 min
Jul 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	39 min
Jul 9, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	35 min
Jul 10, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Benton	43 min
Jul 10, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Benton, Morgan	52 min
Jul 10, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Camden	54 min
Jul 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Camden, Miller, Moniteau, Morgan	55 min
Jul 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Maries	55 min
Jul 10, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cole, Osage	56 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.